Quran 6:123 — Al-An'aam, verse 123
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
And so We have put chief evildoers in every city to perpetrate their schemes there- but they scheme only against themselves, without realizing it.
وَكَذَٰلِكَ جَعَلْنَا فِي كُلِّ قَرْيَةٍ أَكَابِرَ مُجْرِمِيهَا لِيَمْكُرُوا فِيهَا ۖ وَمَا يَمْكُرُونَ إِلَّا بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ وَمَا يَشْعُرُونَ
wakadhālika jaʿalnā fī kulli qaryatin akābira muj'rimīhā liyamkurū fīhā wamā yamkurūna illā bi-anfusihim wamā yashʿurūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- And even so We appointed in every city great ones among its sinners, to devise there; but they devised only against themselves, and they were not aware.
- Muhammad Asad
- And it is in this way that We cause the great ones in every land to become its [greatest] evildoers, there to weave their schemes: yet it is only against themselves that they scheme -and they perceive it not.
- Sahih International
- And thus We have placed within every city the greatest of its criminals to conspire therein. But they conspire not except against themselves, and they perceive [it] not.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | وَكَذَٰلِكَwakadhālika | And thus | — |
| 2 | جَعَلْنَاjaʿalnā | We placed | جعل |
| 3 | فِىfī | in | — |
| 4 | كُلِّkulli | every | كلل |
| 5 | قَرْيَةٍqaryatin | city | قري |
| 6 | أَكَـٰبِرَakābira | greatest | كبر |
| 7 | مُجْرِمِيهَاmuj'rimīhā | (of) its criminals | جرم |
| 8 | لِيَمْكُرُوا۟liyamkurū | so that they plot | مكر |
| 9 | فِيهَا ۖfīhā | therein | — |
| 10 | وَمَاwamā | And not | — |
| 11 | يَمْكُرُونَyamkurūna | they plot | مكر |
| 12 | إِلَّاillā | except | — |
| 13 | بِأَنفُسِهِمْbi-anfusihim | against themselves | نفس |
| 14 | وَمَاwamā | and not | — |
| 15 | يَشْعُرُونَyashʿurūna | they perceive | شعر |